I am using (and highly recommend) a great tool for performing usability testing — UsabilityHub.com. It enables three (3) types of usability tests: Sign up is free and you can even earn test karma by performing test for others. We’re using it extensively at Cospace, GroupCharger, [...]
Like thousands of sites around the country and world, my blog and my coworking company website (Cospace) are going dark here in about 2 hours. It’s a very small gesture to a very large problem — government interference with free enterprise. Stand up for free enterprise by watching this short video, get informed and express [...]
If you don’t think things are changing – FAST! – in education take a look at TeamTreehouse, Skillshare, OpenStudy, and a host of other social-infused education startups. We have a couple brewing ourselves at Cospace that you’ll see more of 2012. It makes you wonder what higher education is thinking (or not rethinking) right now: “Many [...]
This is such a powerful story from Cameron Herold, a lifelong entrepreneur from a family of entrepreneurs. Regardless of what you do for a living (and we’re all different from head to toe), stop trying to fit your round self into that square peg. Figure out what motivates you, what you’re made of, what you [...]
…especially in economic development. I find the current debate between Peter Thiel (We’re in a higher-ed bubble) and the “elites in education” and their supporters (Oh no we’re not!) fascinating, revealing and highly entertaining (the satirist in me is loving every last word). Per usual, when you are in an argument framed by strong opinions on [...]
Over the weekend, I came across the following video from the 2011 Conference on Entrepreneurship. On it, Greg Sands of Sutter Hill Ventures speaks at length with Matthew Monahan of Inflection and Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UElfyu4n6mQ] Besides a rich dialog in and around lean product development, startups, Series A, B, and C financing [...]
(actually, just Julian Smith’s character) Run! That is, unless a) you really don’t like waffles, or b) you really don’t mind squabbling over equity.
Let me be Captain Obvious for a moment and predict that the word-of-the-night in tonight’s State of the Union address will be “jobs”. Duh! Great. Got it. Now…where the jobs (good jobs, preferably) come from is another conversation. We’re not going to bring back manufacturing on a grand scale anytime soon unless the government starts [...]
There are two titles that I see getting thrown around way too freely these days: entrepreneurs and business partners. The former is a topic for another day but suffice it to say, entrepreneurship is a profession, not just a passion. Regarding the latter, there are legal reasons to be a bit more discerning about your [...]
Senator Dodd, I know you are leaving the Senate shortly but, before you go, please don’t destroy angel investing by raising the bar to become an accredited investor. As you know, an accredited investor is someone who has demonstrated themselves to be an investor sophisticated enough not to warrant additional protections provided by the SEC. [...]
